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Cymbidium pulchellum. 



A^eronica anagallis. 



Coptis trifolia.. 



Nymplioea odorata. 



Nuphar advcna. 



Galium spp. 



Myrica gale. 



Lysimacliia qiiadrifolia. 



Liiiaria vulgaris. 



Orchis, several kinds. 



Medeola virginica. 



.Vzalea viscosa. 



Kalmia angustifolia, &c., &c. 



Several of these were made the subject of ol>servatioii by the 

 Chair, who in some introductory remarks regarding the pur- 

 port of these excursions, alluded to the pleasure which the 

 day had afforded him, especially as he had been conducted 

 through the woods and around the ponds by Mr. Cook, 

 who had often had accompanied the late William Oakes, on 

 long excursions and through dense swamps intervening be- 

 tween Wenham and Ipswich, when that naturalist used to 

 search with his collecting box, or else with his gun, for plants 

 or birds and insects, as his tastes might decide for the time. 

 Whole days used to be spent in these wanderings and the 

 riches of this section of Essex County were rendered familiar 

 to him in those departments of Natural Science for which he 

 had an especial delight. Many very singular and rare spe- 

 cies had been thus brought to notice by Mr. 0., some of 

 which have not been seen since ; though probably to be 

 found in localities seldom visited by our naturalists. 



A partial Eeport upon the Subject of the Onion disease 

 was read by Geo. D. Phippen, in behalf of the Committee to 

 whom it had been referred at a previous meeting, as follows, 

 viz : — 



" Your Committee appointed at the last field meeting 



